Saturday, October 1, 2011
Message Overload
Message overload is when there is so much information that's given to you in a amount of time that it's difficult to process and remember all of it. It is especially difficult for students because when we go to school, we have so many classes and in the short amount of time, we're expected to remember and comprehend all the information. There are so many other things that we have to do also. When we're at work, sometimes new information comes very fast and you're suppose to know it. We also have a social/ personal life that we still have to go home to. The human mind is a very complex, but it can be overwhelmed. We cannot process all the information either fast enough or maybe even at all. If we are overwhelmed from all the information to us, it causes us problems because we're trying to remember all the past information that we miss the information still being given to us. Our world is a very fast paced in today's day and age, it makes us more efficient. It is natural for us to be overloaded because we are still human, not machines and we cannot process all the information fast enough sometimes. We just need to practice and try harder.
Once I heard of this concept I thought how perfect it would have been to know about this when I was in high school to use it as an excuse out of class. There is no way to avoid message overload. We learn new information everyday and it is impossible for us to process all of it especially when we become distracted by outside factors. I think you are right in that we just have to try and find a balance between work, personal life, and school. It is a work in process and we have to try hard to obtain our full potential. Good job!
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